Conversion, Katherine Howe, (sound recording)

It's senior year, and the school's queen bee suddenly falls victim to uncontrollable tics. Her mystery illness quickly spreads, and more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. Only Colleen Rowley, who's been reading The Crucible, realizes what nobody else does: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago

It's senior year, and the school's queen bee suddenly falls victim to uncontrollable tics. Her mystery illness quickly spreads, and more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. Only Colleen Rowley, who's been reading The Crucible, realizes what nobody else does: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago